Zen Classics -

Zen Classics

Formative Texts in the History of Zen Buddhism

Steven Heine, Dale S. Wright (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
296 Seiten
2005
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-517526-4 (ISBN)
78,55 inkl. MwSt
Focuses on the early history of Zen in China, providing overview assessments of many of the most important canonical texts that set the Zen tradition in motion throughout East Asia. This work follows that historical movement, focusing primarily on texts from Korea and Japan that brought this Buddhist movement to fruition.
This is a companion volume to The Koan and The Zen Canon, by the same editors. The first volume collected original essays on koan collections, recorded sayings of individual masters, histories of major schools, and compilations of monastic regulations. The second focuses on the early history of Zen in China, providing overview assessments of many of the most important canonical texts that set the Zen tradition in motion throughout East Asia. Zen Classics will follow that historical movement, focusing primarily on texts from Korea and Japan that brought this Buddhist movement to fruition. Although enormously diverse in style and structure all of the texts and genres of texts considered here were fundamental to the unfolding of Zen in East Asia. The range of genres reveals the varieties of Zen practice, from rules of daily practice to sermons and meditation manuals. The all new essays in this volume will be contributed by an international team of distinguished scholars of Buddhism. It is aimed at a broad audience including college students, Zen practitioners, and scholars of East Asian history, religion, and culture, as well as specialists in Buddhist history.
Erscheint lt. Verlag 28.11.2005
Zusatzinfo 5 line illus.
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 233 x 155 mm
Gewicht 445 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Buddhismus
ISBN-10 0-19-517526-3 / 0195175263
ISBN-13 978-0-19-517526-4 / 9780195175264
Zustand Neuware
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